An artist's concept shows SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) docking with NASA's Orion spacecraft on its journey to the surface of the moon.

Humanity has always looked up at the stars, whispering dreams into the void. But in the 21st century, those dreams are ...

The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage ...

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. It's an apparent major setback for the program.

Starship’s fiery crash was still a win for the future of spaceflight. Here’s why. ... a 25-day-long mission that sent an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit and back.

The Artemis 3 Orion capsule under construction at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 3 mission in the late 2025-2026 timeframe, will carry the next man and the first woman to walk on the moon.

That is a long way of saying that if SpaceX's Starship is not ready in 2026, NASA is actively considering alternative plans. (The most likely of these would be an Orion-Starship docking in low ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket, intended to one day take astronauts to the moon and Mars, ... Orion circled the moon in a successful 25-day mission that blasted off in November 2022 without a crew.

Under the current mission architecture, Starship (a version of it known as the Human Landing System) will dock in lunar orbit with NASA's Orion spacecraft Artemis astronauts will move from the ...